Yule Log Dragging
On December 22, 2019, the Ogre Museum celebrated the winter solstice. The event featured storyteller Gunta Saule, the Ogre Culture Centre folklore group “Artava”, and the Ogre Dance Club. The celebration was organised by “Etnosfēra.” Residents of Ogre, along with friends, relatives, neighbours, and like-minded people, were invited to take part. Everyone who wished to […]
On December 22, 2019, the Ogre Museum celebrated the winter solstice. The event featured storyteller Gunta Saule, the Ogre Culture Centre folklore group “Artava”, and the Ogre Dance Club. The celebration was organised by “Etnosfēra.”
Residents of Ogre, along with friends, relatives, neighbours, and like-minded people, were invited to take part. Everyone who wished to gather at the dawn of the new Sun year – to bless and honour it and to wish prosperity for themselves, their families, their circle of relatives and friends, their city, and their country, Latvia – came together.
The celebration included communal dancing and singing, the sharing of stories about traditions, a bonfire, Yule log dragging and burning, and tea drinking.
